On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Brendan Choi wrote:
>
> Is there any significance to generating a unique host key file for each
> machine? Is it less secure for all machines to be using the same host key
> file?
>
I'm not an expert but this seems like a bad idea. With unique keys the
machines will validate that a man in the middle attack hasn't been setup.
If you're wanting to share binaries and not do a full install the ssh
1.2.x has a make hostinstall that will generate the keys w/o the software.
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